Holder for stropping safety-razor blades.



A. SWEDBERG. HOLDER FOR"STROPPIN( SAFETY RAZOR BLADES. APPl lCATl0N FILED. AUG.5. 1915.

1,162,888. Patented Dec. 7, 1915.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented l? Application filed August 5. 1915. Serial No. 43,806.

To {ZZZ "whom it 21mg; concern Be it known that l, AUG'Us'r Swnonrmo. a oitizergo'f the United States, residing at Kingstr'iii, in the county of Luzerne and State of; Pennsyliania. have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Holders for Stropping Safety-RazorBlades, of which the following is. a specification. ref erence being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to means for holding blades of safety razors while they are being stropped or honed; and the primary object otfth'e invention is the provision of a very sin1ple',' cheaply made, easily applied and effective holder, so'constructed that a' safety razor blade may be securely and firmly clamped within the holder and cannot become detached therefrom by accident.

The invention is illustrated in the'accom panying drawings, wherein:

Figure l is a plan view of my blade holder, the handle being partly in section; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional .view of inserted holder; Fig. e is a rear View of the handle showing'in dotted lines the tangs 10 com-- prcssed; Fig. is a. front end view of the handle; Fig. is a cross sectional View on the line 6-(3 o" Fig. l.

.ieferring to these figures 2 designates a handle which may be made of woorhinetal, celluloid, or any other suitable material and u'hicii is formed with a longitudinally extending bore 3 which opens upon the ends of the handle. At its forward end the man die is reinforced-by the ferrule a: anclby an interior reintoi .'ng bushing 5. This bushing; defines a rectangular opening and is so formed as to provide the oppositely disposed stop shoulders 6. The opposite end of the handle is toroidal with bushing 7. The blade-engagin neinhcr comprises a strip of metal bent upon. itself, as at S, to provide oppositely LllSPOSfAl parallel clamping jaws f). The outer face of these jaws are transversely rounded and the inner faces of the jaws are. llat to engage lat against a razor blade A. it will'be seen from Fig. 3 that the strip from which the jaws 9 are formed is of a-resilient'uiatcrial and as a consequcnc'c the jaws are resiliently forced apart. its illustrated in Fig. 1, each of those jaws has extending from it the relatively narrow tank 10 having a length slightly greater than the length of the handle 2 and formed at their" ends with the stop shiauocrs or heads 11. The tangzs 10 being narrower than the jaws 9 provide the shoulders In order to use my shopping device the razor blade A is inserted between the jaws or members 9. The tangs are compressed so as to holdthe jaws securely in engagement with the blades and the headed ends of the tangs are then inserted through the bushing and the tangs forced leach ward until the heads 11 snap behind the bushing 7. .It will be observed that the bushing 5 defines a relatively narrow reotangular opening while the bushing 7 delines a rnlatively wide opening. The hushing Bholds the jaws tightly closed against each other and againstthe'blade, While the bushing 7 permits the ends of the tangsto springapart, and holds the-heads in locked engagementwith the bushing as illustrated in Fig. 2.

The shoulders 12 bear against the seats (3 formed in the bushing 5 so that the clamping portion of the device is Firmly held upon the handle and cannot shilt relative thereto, at the saine time the blade is firmly clamped between the jaws without the necessity providing the jaws with projections to ear gage the blade. Thus in the blade A illus-- trated, there are a'number oi perforations but the jaws clamp upon this blade; so securely that there is no necessity of the or projections upon the inner faces of the blades connecting through these perforations. It will be seen that the curved outer faces of the jaws 9 erniit the holder to rotated axially so as to bring-1' the bir a proper anglelo the strep or hone. i hen itis desired to release the blade from the. clamping jaws it is only necessary to press the headed ends of the tangstogether so that the heads 11 vill pass throughthe opening;

in the bushing 7 whereupon the jaws may be withdrawn. When withdrawn the aws thus spring to the position shown in Fig. 3, permitting the ready removal of the hlade.

As beforestated. the bushing 5 defines a relatively narrow slot whose width is approximately the same as the thickness of the two jaws at thciu free ends Wl'icn the are closed tightly together. ll he a ws heads 1i on the ends of the tunes have a the interior diameter oi the width equal to Pie a consequence of circular bushing 7.

"this construction when the tangs spring;

1 Oil lOE slightly apart as they will do after they are inserted in the handle and the heads have passed between the bushing, the heads will be disposed'as in Fig. 4, and the shoulders defined by the heads will engage over the end of the bushing7. By forcing the heads 11 together, however, they are brought into a position of alinement with the axis of the bushing 7 and as they have a diameter slightly less than this bushing they will pass freely through it.

My device is adapted to be used with almost every'style of safety razor blade and wherever the blade is made of thin metal. I have found it very effective in practice for the purpose of sharpening, honing, or otherwise treating razors, and may be very cheaply made and is readily operated.

Having thus described my invention, what- I claim is:

1.1;; a. device for holding safety razor blades, a handle having a bore, a rectangular .shing disposed in one end of the handle definin" a relatively narrow entrance slot eommunicatlng. with said bore, and a blade clamping device comprising a. strip of resilient material bent upon itself to provide oppositely disposed normally divergent resilient clamping jaws, the strip being extended from said jaws to provide elongated tangs having a length slightly greater than the length of the handle, each tang being provided at its extremity with a head.

2. In a device for holding safety razor blades, a handle having a bore, a rectangular hashing disposed in one end of the handle silient clamping aws, the strip being extended from said jaws to provide elongated tangs having a length slightly greater than the length of the handle, each tang being provided at its extremity with a head. the width of the head being equal to the bore at the rear end of the handle.

3. A holder for safety razor blades comprising a handle formed with a longitudinally extending bore, one end of the handle being formed to provide a relatively narrow slot communicating with the bore andthe other end of the handle being formed to provide acircula-r opening communicating with the bore, and a blade clamping device eoacting with the handle comprising oppos'itely disposed confronting jaws resiliently connected to each other at one end and normally divergent with relation to each other, each of said jaws at its free end being extended to form a tang havinga length equal to the handle, the end of the tang being formed with a head, each of said heads having a width equal to the diameter of the circular.

bore at the rear of the handle.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

' AUGUST SWEDBERG. WVitnesses:

THOMAS MARTIN, WM. 1. WILLIAMS.

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